Starz Home Entertainment (Anchor Bay) goes exclusively BLU!!!

[darkpoet25]

I sit here salivating at the Blu Ray goodness that Starz(Anchor Bay) will be releasing over the coming months. I couldn't care about Universal. THIS is what I was watiting to hear. Score another for the Blu light!!

[Zvi]

Originally Posted by Jack Torrance

MGM’s Simmons said another 10 to 12 titles are set for Blu-ray release within the next year, including The Sergio Leone Anthology (A Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad and The Ugly/Duck, You Sucker).

Yeah, those I do want, and once Upon a time in the west.

[atomik kinder]

It looks like Anchor Bay/Starz is releasing a "restored" version of Halloween in August on DVD. I don't know what 'restored" means. Could they be preparing a Blu-ray version. I wish they would release them at the same time. Also, this one ticks me off. They are releasing a boxed set with all 13 episodes of Masters of Horror season 1 plus a 14th disc of extras for $80! Let me see. I paid about $10 each for them individually for a total of $130! It doesn't seem like alot when you only pay $10 each for them, but when you combine them... Anyway, I hope the Blu-ray would be coming out around the same time too. They said they would be releasing them before the end of the year.

[atomik kinder]

http://www.dvdreview.com/news/ Looks like there is some good stuff coming.
Some more details about the Starz Blu-Ray titles

As reported here some time ago, Starz Home Entertainment and their label Anchor Bay Entertainment will release the first season of Masters Of Horror on Blu-Ray Disc in September. We have been able to uncover some more details about the release that you will find interesting.
The release will consist of 4 BD-50 discs containing all the 15 season 1 episodes in 1080p high definition video. Currently plans are to provide uncompressed PCM 5.1 audio tracks with the release but that may change, depending on the storage availability on the final discs. The set will also contain some – though not all – of the bonus materials found on the individual DVD releases of the episodes.
In addition to “Masters Of Horror” we have heard mention of another number of Blu-Ray titles from Anchor Bay, scheduled for Halloween. Look out for announcements of John Carpenter’s Halloween, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II and George A. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead to be released on Blu-Ray some time in September or early October.

Wonder why no Evil Dead I. It may not be HD worthy.

[blukrank]

I wonder how well the orginal Dawn of The Dead will look in High Def? I'll wait for reviews before I buy.If I buy the Blu-Ray version this will be like my 5th time buying this movie-I have it on VHS,2 copies on Laserdisc,and the recent Ultimate Edition release on DVD.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by blukrank

I wonder how well the orginal Dawn of The Dead will look in High Def? I'll wait for reviews before I buy.If I buy the Blu-Ray version this will be like my 5th time buying this movie-I have it on VHS,2 copies on Laserdisc,and the recent Ultimate Edition release on DVD.

I probably would buy it anyway. I did have it on VHS and on VHS that was two tapes and Laserdisc and then also on DVD twice, because the first editon from Anchor bay was a flipper, half the movie was on one side the other half on the other.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Wonder why no Evil Dead I. It may not be HD worthy.

Well as its negative is 16mm (isn't its composed OAR 1.37 too?), I'd think it might not be used as a showcase for Starz first 1080p Discs.

[XanderAE]

I will pick up Halloween, Evil Dead II and Dawn Of The Dead with quite some ease...

Halloween being my favourite movie of all time, i'm once again re-affirmed in my decision to be Blu

[jadafa]

I will definitely be picking up another copy of Evil Dead II. This will be my Nth copy of this movie. LoL. I love Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by jadafa

I will definitely be picking up another copy of Evil Dead II. This will be my Nth copy of this movie. LoL. I love Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Yeah, I have a bunch of copies of Evil Dead II also. I still have the blood red Laserdisc Elite released a while ago.

[darkpoet25]

OOohhh, I can't wait for Halloween to come out. I love that movie.

[jadafa]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Yeah, I have a bunch of copies of Evil Dead II also. I still have the blood red Laserdisc Elite released a while ago.

I do too! LoL. Like minds collect alike!

[Zyclone]

i don't want to to double dip but i don't own a copy of dawn of the dead so if its region free i will grab them and if they open up more of there titles i would love to own some of argento's works on blu ray with his amazing use of colors they should look stunning on blu ray.

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Well as its negative is 16mm (isn't its composed OAR 1.37 too?), I'd think it might not be used as a showcase for Starz first 1080p Discs.

It may just be a case of licensing. Raimi owns the rights to Evil Dead 1, and perhaps the agreement needs to be re-upped.

[ussrelativity]

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...-ray_Slate/745

Just found some new information that might be front page worthy for this site.

[HDTV1080P]

I hope this is not a duplicate post regarding the Starz October 50GB BLU-RAY discs.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Starz/Disc_Announcements/Starz/Anchor_Bay_Reveals_More_Masters_of_Horror_Specs,_H ints_at_Fall_Blu-ray_Slate/745

[movies3]

wow thanks

[darkpoet25]

I'd love to get my hands on Halloween and the Evil Dead, as well as Near Dark.

[ussrelativity]

I posted a thread earlier today regarding this.

At least this one got a response.

[dialog_gvf]

Starz will distribute through MGM (who distributes through 20th Century Fox), but it appears they have full control on disc development. Anchor Bay has one of the largest catalogs of classic horror films, so expect some quality releases from them soon.

Clearly Fox needs to be distributing if they are releasing these.